Politics

A woman brandishes machete during the Bakura by-election campaign in Zamfara State Two ad-hoc staff recruited as Presiding Officers for the December 5 in the State House of Assembly by-election in Zamfara State, have been declared missing. Daily Trust had reported that suspected armed bandits on Saturday disrupted the voting process during the State Assembly…

A former Kano Central Senator, Rufai Hanga, says President Muhammadu Buhari is retaining the Service Chiefs because he is afraid of a coup. Hanga, an ex-member of the House of Representatives, stated this in an interview in an interview with The Sun. The politician recalled that the National Assembly had, on different occasions, advised Buhari…

 Lokoja Local GovermentAll Progressive Congress( APC) on Thursday ,flagged off its Campaign ahead of December 12,2020 local government election,with a called on Governor Yahaya Bello to contest for the 2023 presidential election. Former speaker Kogi state house of Assembly,Rt Hon. Abdulrahman Dangana,who spoke on behalf of former and present serving members from the area, said…

When Aregbesola is the victim By Sola Fasure I cannot just begin to imagine the motivation of Zainab Suleiman Okino seeing her vitriol, extreme passion (albeit misplaced) and the bile in her piece in Premium Times titled ‘Aregbesola: A Godfather’s Excesses’. She tried to cast the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, as an overbearing…

With four days to Election Day, the political parties are making the final push to drum up support for their candidates. Their strategies have been to reach out to difficult and swing areas and energise their supporters in their strongholds to go out massively and cast their vote on Monday. The combined strength of the…

Another faction of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State has expressed readiness to participate in the forthcoming Local Government elections scheduled for January 2020. Kano Focus reports that the state Interim Chairman of the faction, Muhammina Lamido announced this while briefing newsmen on Wednesday in Kano. On Tuesday, the Kwankwasiyya faction of the…

Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is becoming hostile for its members, lamenting over his recent experience with his governor colleagues from the South-South region of the country. Mr Matawalle, who made the lamentation in a statement on Friday by his media aide, Zailani Bappa, commended Governor…

The chairmanship candidate of the APC in Kogi Local Government,Hon. Isah Abdulkareem a.k. a ECOMOG, has Promised to operate all inclusive government if giving the mandate. Abdulkareem disclosed this at the state APC secretariat while speaking with journalists on Thursday in Lokoja He promised to transform Kogi local government if elected as the Executive Chairman…

Abbo’s defection boosts ruling party’s hold of Senate The Chairman, APC caretaker committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni, has said since the membership registration exercise of 2013, the party has no authentic register in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Speaking at a meeting of the APC Senate Caucus, yesterday, Buni said some…

The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has again flayed the idea of zoning of political positions. Speaking at the Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, El-Rufai insisted that no country progresses with such an arrangement. The governor said instead every qualified person should be given equal opportunity to contest for political positions. In Nigeria, political…